Synthesizing conjunctive and disjunctive linear invariants by K-means++ and SVM

Abstract EN

The problem of synthesizing adequate inductive invariants lies at the heart of automated software verification.

The state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for synthesizing invariants have gradually shown its excellent performance.

However, synthesizing disjunctive invariants is a difficult task.

In this paper, we propose a method k++ Support Vector Machine (SVM) integrating k-means++ and SVM to synthesize conjunctive and disjunctive invariants.

At first, given a program, we start with executing the program to collect program states.

Next, k++SVM adopts k-means++ to cluster the positive samples and then applies SVM to distinguish each positive sample cluster from all negative samples to synthesize the candidate invariants.

Finally, a set of theories founded on Hoare logic are adopted to check whether the candidate invariants are true invariants.

If the candidate invariants fail the check, we should sample more states and repeat our algorithm.

The experimental results show that k++SVM is compatible with the algorithms for Intersection Of Half-space (IOH) and more efficient than the tool of Interproc.

Furthermore, it is shown that our method can synthesize conjunctive and disjunctive invariants automatically.